Jonathan E. Shardlow

Shareholder

Jonathan Shardlow is the chair of the Land Use and Litigation practice groups at Gresham Savage. Mr. Shardlow represents landowners, developers and businesses in a wide array of litigation and transactional matters involving land use. His primary emphasis is on California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) compliance and litigation. Mr. Shardlow has extensive experience advising public and private clients on a wide variety of state and federal environmental laws, as well as providing civil litigation services prosecuting and defending claims brought pursuant to these same state and federal environmental laws. He also assists clients with all of the necessary preparation for all documentation required by CEQA and the National Environmental Policy Act, including, notices, exemptions, addenda, negative declarations and environmental impact reports/statements. Mr. Shardlow’s environmental litigation experience includes defending parties against claims alleging violations of CEQA and the Clean Water Act. Additionally, Mr. Shardlow provides counsel and litigation services on land use matters involving development impact fees, development agreements and entitlements, subdivision, general and specific plan adoption and amendments, conditional use permits, variances and zoning. Moreover, Mr. Shardlow is the author of several successful land use initiatives.

Publications

• Advisory Board Member, California Land Use Law & Policy Reporter
• Contributing Editor, California Water Law & Policy Reporter
• State Bar of California Environmental Law Section—Environmental Law News “Analyzing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Under CEQA: Why the Questions Left Unanswered by Newhall Ranch Have Demonstrated the Need for an Update to the CEQA Guidelines.” (Fall 2017, Vol. 26, No. 2).
• State Bar of California Environmental Law Section—Environmental Law News “Public Interest Standing Under CEQA—Will We Ever Learn What Types of ‘Urgent Considerations’ Outweigh a Petitioner’s Standing?” (Spring 2017, Vol. 26, No. 1).

Affiliations

• NAIOP Inland Empire Board of Director
• NAIOP Inland Empire Legislative Affairs Committee

Presentations

• Speaker, 2019, Association of Environmental Professionals, Warehousing in the Inland Empire
• Speaker, 2019 California Land Use Law & Policy Conference – Navigating Changes in California Land Use Law, Policy and Planning for 2019 and Beyond, “The California Supreme Court and CEQA: What the Recent Decisions Tell Us About the Future of CEQA Review” 
• Speaker, 2018 California Land Use Law & Policy Conference – Making Sense of a New Landscape in California Land Use Law and Policy, “Essential Changes to CEQA Law and Guidelines You Must Know to Be Effective”
• Speaker, 2017 California Construction and Industrial Materials Association (CalCIMA): CEQA Litigation Strategies For Mining and Mining Site Reuse Development Projects
• Faculty, 2017 CEQA Essentials: An Introduction and Intermediate-Level Training Workshop
• Faculty, 2016 Advanced CEQA Workshop
• Speaker, 2015 California Water Laws and Regulations, Emerging Issues in California Water Law
• Speaker, 2015 California Land Use Law & Policy Conference – Successfully Scaling the Land Use and Natural Resources Hurdles of 2015 and Beyond, “Emerging CEQA Issues in Residential and Commercial Development”
• Faculty, 2014 CEQA Essentials: An Introduction and Intermediate-Level Training Workshop
• Speaker, 2014 California Land Use Law & Policy Conference – Staying Ahead of the Curve – Land Use and Natural Resource Issues for the Next Economic Cycle, “Breathing New Life into Old Entitlements to Fit New Demands”

Honors

• Rising Stars List, Southern California Super Lawyers and Los Angeles Magazines, 2012-2018

Representative Matters

• Mr. Shardlow represents mid-size to Fortune 500 companies in land use litigation, including CEQA litigation, throughout all phases of trial, including the handling of appeals.  In addition, he also represents these same clients in securing land use entitlements throughout the state.